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"Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like
by habs 18y ago
"Scientific truth is too beautiful to be sacrificed for the sake of light entertainment or money. Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles."
- Richard Dawkins
- habs 18y agoThis article made me think of another quote my old physics teacher use to quote - "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion" - Democritus
- kirubakaran 18y agoWhat about photons?
- unalone 18y agoI know you didn't quote this because of the latter part of that quote, but: I discovered Chopin by playing a song on DDR that used one of his themes. So I've always been partial to people who use grandiose things for the sake of pop. Or at the very least, I'm a bit forgiving of it. Astrology I can't stand, though. I'd like it a lot more if people didn't actually believe in it.
- gaius 18y agoOr paperback polemics for evolutionary theory, eh?